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Middle of the Heat Wave, and AOL’s big Change of Strategy

It’s Wednesday, August 2nd; it’s 97F outside (106 heat index) with 50% humidity. We are in the middle of the heat wave (in the D.C. area). I sure am grateful for the pool in the backyard now, though to be honest is has not been that refreshing lately (water is 86-90F).

Please be careful out there folks. Don’t strain yourself, drink lots of water, stay in the shade. Check on your elderly neighbors to be sure they are doing well. Heat like this can kill people.

In other news AOL has made their big change of strategy public now. Essentially, if you already have connectivity, you can use AOL for free. If you still want to use AOL’s point of presence to dial into the internet, you’ll still need to pay a monthly fee. Pretty damned good deal if you like and use AOL’s client software for mail or quotes.

The thing I find most disturbing about this is that so far, there has been no discussion of this change at all on the various geek forums (slashdot, boingboing, kuro5hin, digg), which implies that the geeks are all day-time sleepers or they simply no longer care what AOL does. Perhaps tomorrow we’ll know for sure.

Update: turns out I missed a little discussion of this on slashdot, the topic was brought up before the news was public.

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